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Sample of authors
La Plante, Lynda
Lynda La Plante is a British author, television producer and actor born Lynda Titchmarsh in Formby near Liverpool. Her writing career is an unusual one. Several of her books are based on television screenplays and films, others were originally novels that were later adapted, normally for television. She has won a string of awards and was awarded an OBE in 2008.
La Plante was raised in and...
Literary figures
Kate Fansler
Gender: Female
Like her creator Amanda Cross (pseudonym for Carolyn G. Heilbrun) Kate Fansler is a professor of Literature, independent and respected, as well as being an active feminist. When Fansler marries Reed Amhearst, she refuses to adopt his surname or wear a wedding ring. Besides which the slim and attractive middle-aged lady is a skilled amateur detective who solves her cases mainly by talking with...